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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. HOLLEN, OF LANSINGBURG, NE? YORK.

MIXED PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No,341,576, dated May 11,1886.

Application filed February 17, 1856. Serial No. W144i. (Np specimens.)

To all whom it ntcty concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. HOLLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lansingburg, in the county of Rensselaer and State of NewYork, have invented anew and useful composition to be used as a liquidfiller and finisher for filling and impregnating the pores or surfaceinterstices of fine dressed hard woods used for interior and exteriorbuilding and decorative purposes, and for articles of domestic andofiice furniture, wainscoting, dados, and panels, and for finishing anddeveloping the grain of such woods on the surfaces thereof, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients combined,preferably, in the proportions stated, viz: bleached gum-shellac, threepounds; corn starch, one pound; pulverized magnesia, one-halfpound;pulverized steatite, one-half pound; alcohol, one and one-half gallon.

This composition is prepared for use by first cutting or dissolving thegum-shellac in the alcohol, then adding the corn-starch, pul-' verizedmagnesia, and pulverized steatite into the mixture in the order named,and thoroughly agitating the whole over a slow fire until a liquid isformed of a consistence to flow freely and spread evenly on andpenetrate readily the surface of the wood to be treated,when applied bymeans of an ordinary varnish-brush.

In using and applying the above-named com position in practice thefollowing method is preferably to be observed: Spread the liquid fillerand finisher overthe surface of the wood or wood-work to be filled andimpregnated in the same manner as varnish is appied with avarnish-brush; then allow the work to stand from four to five hoursuntil the liquid filler and finisher shall have become thoroughly setand impregnated into the pores and interstices of the surface grain ofthe wood; then, when the work has become set, sand-paper it slightly,and finish with one coat of varnish The utility and novelty of myinvention is that by the use of the above-named compositionliquid fillerand finisher-the surface-interstices of the woods to be treated arethoroughly and expeditiously filled and impreg the like are brought outmore clearly and fully to the eye, and the general effect of the work isheightened and beautified.

By the omission of the pulverized steatite in the above com position theliquid forms a finish of itself without the oil or varnish finish; butin such case requires two or more coats or applications to form a smoothpolished surface on the woods or work.

I am aware that painters, decorators, and woodfinishers have heretoforeused compositions consisting of two or more of the abovenamedingredients, omitting some one or more of the others, to form a viscidglutinous paste for the purpose of filling or stuffing the pores andsurface-interstices of fine, dressed, hard woods as a foundation toreceive an additional finish, which paste is required to be slowly andlaboriously rubbed in and upon the surfaces of such woods by means ofcloths or with the bare hands, and requiring afterward to be slowly andlaboriously scraped off and smoothed to remove the inequalities of thepaste; but I am not aware that all of the ingredients ofmy compositionin the proportions stated or otherwise have been used together to form aliquid, so as to be applied by means of a brush, and to flow freely andto impregnate equally and thoroughly the interstices on the surfaces ofsuch woods as described, and to bring out and develop the grain thereofin a quick and labor-saving manner.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is 1 The herein-described wood filler and finisher, consistingof bleached guurshellac, cornstarch, pulverized magnesia, pulverizedsteatite, and alcohol, combined in about the proportions hereinspecified.

JAMES H. HoLLEN.

Vitnesses:

JEREMIAH K. Lone, J OI-IN D. COLBY.

